anti-aircraft gun, the 8.8 cm Flak 41, which was produced in relatively small numbers. Krupp responded with another prototype of the long-barreled 8.8 cmgun, which
the 15cm SK C/25 guns used as the main armament of the Königsberg- and Leipzig-class cruisers. It shared the earlier gun's design with a loose barrel, jacket
main 15cm calibre weapons, the others being the 15cm Kanone 18, a corps-level heavy gun, and the 15cm sIG 33, a short-barreled infantry gun. Development
early 1941. Two guns were ordered. The first round was test-fired from the commissioned gunbarrel on 10 September 1941 from a makeshift gun carriage at Hillersleben
Panzerjägerkanone 43) was a German 8.8 cm anti-tank gun developed by Krupp in competition with the Rheinmetall 8.8 cm Flak 41 anti-aircraft gun and used during World War